Bazadais / Bazadaisepronounced Ba - za - day

Breeding Better Beef

Bazadaise Cattle originate from Bazas, France a little town in the south of Bordeaux. It is probably related to Limousin or Blonde d'Aquitaine.

The color is grey, with dark skin and pale nose and around the eyes.Bulls average 1100kg and cows 700kg for 140-145 cm tall.

​The Bazadaise breed has the qualities necessary to produce one calf per year. They are easy calving which is understandable because the mothers have a good broad pelvis and a low birth weight for the calves. They are also renowned for their grass finishing ability, mobility, hardiness and strong muscular development.

The Bazadaise does have a considerable advantage of combining a quality carcass of succulent meat, with an excellent feed conversion ability and resistance to extreme conditions. Its efficient food conversion rate derives from the harsh nature from which the breed had its birth, having to make the most of what was available. Because of the difficult conditions it has experienced throughout its long history the Bazadaise has developed a true robustness.​The Bazadaise breed offers great potential as an economical producer of high quality beef. Its extraordinary versatility makes it an impressive beast that can adapt to almost every production system. Thanks to its physical soundness, fattening ability, high return carcass weight and a finely textured low cholesterol tender meat the Bazadaise can be considered to have outstanding characteristics that give confidence in its future.

​Qualities of Hardness· Adapts to all types of conditions· Good converter of rough fodder· Natural resistance to parasites· Adapts very well to rough country· Vigour and adaptive traits· Athletic and mobile

Its exceptional combination of high muscling and ability to marble off grass is the foundation of the breeds outstanding carcass characteristics. The fine conformation and quality of the carcass lead to high levels of meat production meaning more meat and less waste. Indeed the carcass quality and excellent flavour of its beef is confirmed by butchers and consumers. Butchers value the very high meat production that the Bazadaise produces and are happy to be able to offer their clients meat of excellent eating quality with respect to its tenderness, fine grain, juiciness with at the same time, an even coverage of fat. Used in cross breeding, the Bazadaise possesses great qualities to allow the producer to achieve optimum results. The strong genetic traits of the Bazadaise bring about an improved conformation, exceptional length, increased weight gain and higher carcass evaluations. Bazadaise bulls are proving that they leave their stamp on the product they produce with a well developed hind quarter and thickness throughout. The growth impetus given produces profitable, high growth offspring and a high quality, high yielding carcasses.​

Crossbreeding

Bazadaise bulls are being used successfully in commercial beef suckler herds. A significant proportion of our members' pedigree bulls are sold into commercial herds. And most of our members have both a commercial and a pedigree herd. Bazadaise bulls cross well with breeds such as Limousin, Angus, Blue, Simmental, Charolais, Blonde and Shorthorn.

Whether you are looking to finish bulls at 14 months, or steers and heifers at 21 months, or to sell into the stores market, a Bazadaise bull on your cows will produce an excellent commercial animal. Also, Bazadaise have been popular as a bull on the dairy herd, ever since their introduction to the UK in 1989.